Why Does It Feel Like Poor Play Is Acceptable (I'm Venting.)

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For some (which is silly, when it comes to playing with other strangers. Though this goes into a deeper issue of respect for fellow players.) the baseline standard is tank should tank, a healer should heal, and a dps should dps. That is the baseline standard, anything beyond that is a expectation placed by the players not the game. Duty finder is random, the experience will suffer from massive variance swings, and trying to place individual player expectations on random players also suffers from such variance swings.

In an ideal world your standards would be the norm, but sadly that is not the world we live in, and honestly until SE does something about trying to facilitate play behind, tank tanking, healer healing, and damage dealer doing damage we will always have players that will stick to that mindset. Since the bare standard for SE when it comes to such content is not the same for many in the community. So our only option is to either try to vote kick players that do not met expectations, use PF and form a group that will met the expectations placed, leave the group or deal with it.

I mean I ran into a ice mage once, tried to vote kick him and the vote failed so I adjusted, it sucked and the run took longer then it should have, clearly that group had a different standard. Thankfully they are not the norm. Not trying to defend the behavior, nor agree I do see where they might be coming from when it comes to a community bare minimum. If SE does not enforce the same bare minimum what reason would another player have to listen to another player outside of respect for their fellow player. Hope you understand hard for me to explain it.